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Gittis becomes involved with an amiable patrician (John Huston), a gentleman rancher whose face is creased with forced jollity, a stranger to scruple. His daughter (Faye Dunaway), the water commissioner's widow, is troubled and dangerous, and Gittis falls for her. But whether he is really drawn to her or only uses her to advance his investigation is never made clear. The widow's part is a plum, and Dunaway does well with it whenever she relaxes and stops pushing, stops acting. A lot of her scenes are meant to be played big, however, and for these Dunaway...
Chinatown as a whole shares something of Dunaway's problem. Get too close to it and the careful illusion breaks down. Polanski and Towne turned out a smart and elegant recreation. But the script also raises moral questions and political implications that are never plumbed at greater than paper-cup depth...
Theater in America. "Hogan's Goat," a drama about Brooklyn politics in 1890, with Faye Dunaway. Ch. 2, 8 p.m. 2 hours...
Bonnie and Clyde. No one believes me when I swear I saw a black and white print of this once, but it's true, and it looked amazing, like Walker Evans stuff. Arthur Penn directed, with Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway in the title roles...
AFTER FIVE MINUTES of The Three Musketeers my notebook was on the floor, by the popcorn boxes. What could I write? That Michael York and Faye Dunaway look nice? That the 17th century street scenes look like Hogarths or something? What can you do with a film which manages to make Raquel Welch goofy and charming? How can a movie where Charlton Heston glides around as a hunched Cardinal Richelieu keep anyone scrawling critical notations in the dark? Objecting to Richard Lester's Musketeers for being a little flabby and shallow would be like condemning another of Lester's pictures...